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Thome Gets 600 HR

Jim Thome has joined the 600 homerun club and now talk of his hall of fame status will increase. Some will argue for saying to get to 600 homeruns you must’ve been consistently good to put up those kinds of numbers. I’ll argue that he’s borderline out. Never have you thought of Jim Thome as one the elite players in the league, just a very good player. Yes you feared him because with one swing he could change a ball game, but he was also prone to strike outs as well. He’s only led the league once in homeruns, but has hit 40 or more homeruns 6 times. All good stats but this doesn’t mean that he belongs in the hall with the best of the best. I get the feeling with Thome that because he’s never been associated with steroids or performance enhancing drugs that he gets a boost. Thome over his entire career has been a very good player, but the hall of fame is reserved for all time greats, game changers, and Thome isn’t that. He’s a very good player that was blessed with good health, and developed to be one of the most statistical consistent players in the league. However, in my book that doesn’t justify hall of fame status. He’ll probably get in because it’ll be hard to deny a guy who will eventually end his career with over 600 homeruns, close to 2300 hits, and an on base percentage close to .400. Hopefully the writers understand that Cooperstown is home of the hall of fame not to be treated as the walk of fame.

Indians Take a Royal Thrashing 12-0

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At what point are you outraged? At what point will you say you’ve had enough? Well getting demolished 12 to nothing by the Kansas City Royals is all it takes for me. I’m just about ready to sell my seat on the bandwagon for a couple dollars. I understand that during a 162 game season you will have your games that nothing goes your way, but this game was a total domination. All that good will they built up, all that momentum they had, they took that humungous eraser they give second graders and have taken it to their season and what they need right now is someone to blow away the remains. However, Kosuke Fokudome isn’t the one in my opinion (by the way he went 0-4 in his debut) and I’m going to need Manny Acta to at some point show that he’s a little upset with his team’s performance; maybe putting someone on blast will put them on their toes. If they come this far, just to give it all back, it’ll be a bigger tease than Halle Berry’s sex scene in Monster’s Ball. No hit one game, and then shut out the next, this is not a way to keep yourself in the divisional race. 14 of their next 18 games are against divisional opponent and the other 6 are against the Rangers and Red Sox so now is not the time for them to play beneath their expectation.